Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabJohn Lukens @lukensjohnr.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Harnessing microglia-based cell therapies for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 24415
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabGan Lab @liganlab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Exciting work @blurtonjoneslab.bsky.social: CRISPR-engineered iPSC-microglia use the plaque-responsive CD9 promoter to deliver Aβ-degrading neprilysin across the brain-- reducing plaques, inflammation & synaptic loss. A promising new cell therapy platform for AD www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comHarnessing human iPSC-microglia for CNS-wide delivery of disease-modifying proteinsWidespread delivery of therapeutic proteins to the brain remains challenging. To determine whether human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-microgli… 0306
Reposted by Blurton-Jones Labghazeskandari.bsky.social @ghazeskandari.bsky.social · 12/04/2025This amazing news made my week! 🎊 I’m beyond blessed to be part of the @brightfocus.bsky.social community while studying the protective microglial responses in the context of Alzheimer’s disease. Super thankful to @blurtonjoneslab.bsky.social and the entire MBJ team for their continuous support! 2333
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabRyan Flynn @raflynn5.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Exciting work from @blurtonjoneslab.bsky.social + Spitale labs -- new examples of how iPSC-microglia can be used as a long-term, in vivo platform for a therapeutic protein payload in models of Alzheimer’s disease @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1934590925000992sciencedirect.comHarnessing human iPSC-microglia for CNS-wide delivery of disease-modifying proteinsWidespread delivery of therapeutic proteins to the brain remains challenging. To determine whether human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-microgli… 0238
Reposted by Blurton-Jones Labghazeskandari.bsky.social @ghazeskandari.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Congratulations to Dr. Jean Paul Chadarevian and the entire @blurtonjoneslab.bsky.social team for this beautiful piece of work: Harnessing human iPSC-microglia for CNS-wide delivery of disease modifying proteins." 👍👍👍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comHarnessing human iPSC-microglia for CNS-wide delivery of disease-modifying proteinsWidespread delivery of therapeutic proteins to the brain remains challenging. To determine whether human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-microgli… 086
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabCharles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · 12/03/2025This message needs to be heard widely.news.harvard.eduNIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard GazetteReport finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development. 161089382
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabBethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 07/03/2025At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent 261275693762
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025@baldwin.senate.gov released a press release calling out the administration for damaging the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center network through it's screwing up NIH processes. www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-r... 1/2baldwin.senate.govBaldwin Blasts Trump Administration for Stopping $65 Million for Alzheimer’s Disease Research | U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin of WisconsinWASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ranking Member of the Senate... 412045
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabTowfique Raj @trajnp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Nice to see this finally published! Congratulations @jack-humphrey.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... (Collaborative work with Panos Roussos and his team! ) Long-read RNA sequencing atlas of human microglia isoforms elucidates disease-associated genetic regulation of splicingnature.comLong-read RNA sequencing atlas of human microglia isoforms elucidates disease-associated genetic regulation of splicing - Nature GeneticsThis isoform-centric microglia genomic atlas includes 35,879 novel human microglia isoforms identified by long-read RNA sequencing. A multi-ancestry quantitative trait locus meta-analysis of known and... 24416
Reposted by Blurton-Jones Lab🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025 15185159712187
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 25/02/2025Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now. 764395849211
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabMatt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.nih.govDirect Economic ContributionsNIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation. 7244142089
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 08/02/2025This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives. 821255525
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabAdrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 08/02/2025The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH. GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC. Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud. 13703378
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/20251. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost RatesNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD 25469994078
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabRick Huganir @rhuganir.bsky.social · 07/02/2025This is the end of science as we know it if it stands—15% IDCs for all NIH Grants. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost RatesNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD 69562
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabDequina Nicholas @quinascience.bsky.social · 08/02/2025This is a full on assault on education. The US is the world leader in innovation research, technology only because we as a society support it. Without support for world leading research, we will brain drain and the best and brightest will go where research thrives www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...statnews.comNIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through scienceThe NIH said Friday night that it would slash support for indirect costs on all existing and future grants to 15% 1123
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabEliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Un-fucking-believable. I have... no words. This is how you destroy science and also public health.grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost RatesNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD 1113
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabProf Malú Gámez Tansey @malutansey.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Announcemets on Fridays are meant to fly under the radar. Cutting NIH indirect rates to 15% signal the beginning of the end for a strong US biomedical research enterprise. We need to form strong partnerships with foundations/philantropy and pharma and circle the wagons grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost RatesNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD 094
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabShannon Macauley @macauleylab.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Cool work the Lance Johnson’s lab on lipid droplet proteome and APOE! @johnsonlab.bsky.social @morganti.bsky.social @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgAPOE4 alters the lipid droplet proteome and modulates droplet dynamicsExcess lipid droplet (LD) accumulation is associated with several pathological states, including Alzheimers disease (AD). However, the mechanism(s) by which changes in LD composition and dynamics cont... 0142
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabLance Johnson @johnsonlab.bsky.social · 21/12/2024new preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... a characterization of APOE effects on the lipid droplet-ome (turns out you see a lot of "AD-related" proteins!) first authors Cassi Friday & Isaiah Stephens + great collaborators Scott Gordon, @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social @morganti.bsky.social 26021
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabFernando González Ibáñez @fgi-em-neuro.bsky.social · 09/12/2024New publication on Cell Reports! We describe a mechanism by which #microglia degrade amyloid-beta deposits that they can't phagocytose. Collaboration between the Tremblay lab and Rudy Jacquet, Santiago Solé-Domènech and Frederick Maxfield at Weill Cornell. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comMicroglia degrade Alzheimer’s amyloid-beta deposits extracellularly via digestive exophagyHow microglia digest Alzheimer’s fibrillar amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques that are too large to be phagocytosed is not well understood. Here, we show that … 2459
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabShannon Macauley @macauleylab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Microglia-Dependent and Independent Modulation of Brain Lipid Metabolism in Alzheimer's Disease Revealed by Pharmacological and Genetic Microglial Depletion 03111
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabThiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 22/11/2024In vivo veritas "We identify differences in the protein content of ex vivo and in vitro cells and significant proteome differences associated with protein synthesis, metabolism, microglia marker expression, and environmental sensors." www.cell.com/cell-reports...cell.comDeep proteomic analysis of microglia reveals fundamental biological differences between model systemsLloyd et al. generated a comprehensive microglia proteome database, identifying over 11,000 proteins. Fundamental differences between ex vivo and in vitro microglia associated with protein synthesis, ... 0143
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabMonica Carson @brainimmunity.bsky.social · 21/11/2024In #neuroinflammation, lineage matters….check out this preprint of long term engraftment of blood derived- #macrophages vs brain resident #microglia in #TBI # neuroskyence 0145
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabPaige L @paigeonthebrain.bsky.social · 19/11/2024✨Researchers, share your work at #APOE25, Mar. 17-18 in Miami or online. This topic-specific addition to #AAICAdvancements features the latest on the role of APOE & lipid biology in neurodegenerative diseases. Abstracts due 12/2. buff.ly/4eyHVlTalz.orgAAIC Advancements: APOE & Lipid Biology | alz.orgNeuroscience researchers should attend this Alzheimer's Association conference to discuss the role of APOE & lipid biology in neurodegenerative diseases. 1114
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabElizabeth Head, Ph.D. @elizabethhead.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Super excited about this new paper with Vivek Swarup and Kim Green at UCI (hope they both join Bluesky!) - Here we present a spatial transcriptomic (ST) and single-nucleus transcriptomic survey of late-onset sporadic AD and AD in Down syndrome (DSAD)! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comSpatial and single-nucleus transcriptomic analysis of genetic and sporadic forms of Alzheimer’s disease - Nature GeneticsSpatial and single-nucleus analyses in human postmortem Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brain tissues at early and late stages from individuals with and without Down syndrome, as well as in AD mouse models, ... 2302
Reposted by Blurton-Jones LabCherie Stringer (She/Her) @aquaporingirl.bsky.social · 14/11/2024 Super excited for this!!! Call for abstracts and registration for the #gliameeting in #Marseille starts on 10 December! Learn more about the topics, submission process and the available stipends on the #glia2025 website: loom.ly/AJI_q_Y Submit your abstract by midnight CET on 5 February 2025! 03013